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Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona asked members of his party to do something difficult – if not impossible.

Mr. Flake said Republicans should put aside their distrust of President Barack Obama and vote to give his administration special powers to negotiate trade agreements.

“Republicans need to resist the temptation to buy the misleading narrative that TPA [trade promotion authority] would simply give away the store to the Obama administration,” Mr. Flake said at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. “Distaste for Mr. Obama isn’t enough to justify opposition to trade pacts that would raise U.S. living standards.”… Read More »

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